Historical administrative units and NUTS 3 in Estonia


NUTS 3 units based on 2018 counties (15):

  • EE001 --- North (Harju County)
  • EE004 --- West (Hiiu County, Lääne County, Pärnu County, Saare County)
  • EE008 --- South (Jõgeva County, Põlva County, Tartu County, Valga County, Viljandi County, Võru County)
  • EE009 --- Central (Järva County, Lääne-Viru County, Rapla County)
  • EE00A --- N_East (Ida-Viru County)

Only one unit at NUTS 1 and 2 level; five level 3 units  


2021 county borders and NUTS 3 regions

This will be the base plot to compare historical borders to.


Historical borders

Historical administrative border maps made available by Estonian land board (these are .SHP shape-files!).

Below, I will colour-fill the country map of Estonia by NUTS 3 regions and overlay historical county/rayon and smaller admin.unit borders to it.

Starting with 1997 county borders over 2021 NUTS 3 areas and moving backwards in time.


1997 counties and local governmental units


1989 rayons and selsoviets


1979 rayons and selsoviets


1959 rayons and selsoviets


1938 counties and parishes


1922 counties and parishes


1917 counties and Kirchspiel

Population counts

1959 census data

Stat.Office data 1990-2017

Reconstructed 1965-1990 population counts and events

Births

Infant deaths

GDP post-1990

Regional employment by industry 1979 & 1989

NRTAK & ISIC

Net wage income by NRTAK and NUTS3